This is friggin funny. Jerome Powell has Trump beat by 8 percent AND Jaydee, Marco, and Bobby Brainworms are also more popular than him in this Gallup survey? Lol. Also this is the Orange God Emperor’s second month in a row at 36 percent job approval with Gallup, hovering just above his all-time low of 34 percent he got right after the goddamned Capitol riot in January 2021.

Never one to forego an opportunity to live it up in style and on the taxpayer’s dime, FBI Director K$H Patel is being driven around in a mini fleet of custom-armored BMW X5s, MS Now reports.

“Government agencies, including the FBI, routinely evaluate, replace and update vehicle fleets based on usage, security needs or budgetary decisions,” said FBI PR agent Ben Williamson, confirming the reporting. “The specific decisions referenced in this article were evaluated partly as a way to save taxpayers millions by picking cheaper selections or making cost structures more efficient.”

MS Now dutifully notes that Williamson did not make any effort whatsoever to provide them with the relevant documentation let alone even name the prices. Also what the fuck, why BMW? If it were Cadillac Escalades then yeah that’d be an overpriced luxury model too but at least he’d be able to say they’re buying American and from a UAW shop in Michigan rather than a German brand that thrived under the Third Reich and assembled at a non-union plant somewhere in the south.

George Conway, the lawyer who in the mid-1990s while working pro bono for wealthy conservative interests quarterbacked the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit that ultimately led to Bill Clinton’s impeachment for lying under oath about a sexual relationship with then-22 year-old White House intern before he went all “RINO,” on Monday filed to run in the already pretty crowded Dem primary to replace retiring Manhattan Congressman Jerry Nadler, the New York Post reports.

Conway, who must’ve “moved” to Manhattan in the last few weeks, joins JFK’s grandson Jack Schlossberg, March for Our Lives organizer Cameron Kasky, and a handful of local and state pols in the field. If there’s any district where it’s not so carpet-baggy to run it’d be one south of 110th Street, so that attack line’s probably not going to work as well as it might’ve been elsewhere.

MAGA Congressman Russell Fry on Monday found Dems’ outcry over convicted felon President Trump unilaterally renaming the Kennedy Center after himself to be “incredibly rich coming from the party that spray paints monuments, desecrates memorials, tears down statues,” as though Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had personally dumped buckets of red paint on a Columbus statue.

But even they had then why’s that an argument for Trump breaking the law? Aren’t Republicans supposed to be more decorous and reverent than Dems? Is it just two “wrongs” make a right now?

A new national survey by Trump campaign pollster Tony Fabrizio’s outfit finds Democrats leading Republicans 45 to 38 percent on the generic congressional ballot, newsworthy simply because it’s Trump’s pollster who found this. The polling itself is aimed at pitching some national AI safeguard legislation and the question is then framed with “If the Republican candidate for Congress (supported/opposed) all of the policies just discussed to create national standards to regulate Al, would you be more likely to vote for the Republican candidate or the Democratic candidate?”

If yes then it’s GOP 45 to Dems 32 percent, if no it’s Dems 45 to GOP 29 percent. Yes, this is “push-polling” in the purest sense as well as industrial-scale focus grouping of some way to channel populist anger toward Big AI to try to salvage the midterms for Republicans. The only way it’s going to work is if Trump starts hanging out with his lowly servants in Congress more than he does his billionaire “friends” and that doesn’t seem all that likely. Likelier than any actual legislation happening, lol, but still it’s hard to see how this comes together as a campaign issue when (A) Dems are going to say the same thing and more convincingly so and (B) the AI companies can just buy off the Republican candidates one by one and neutralize the threat of any legitimate regulation.

“Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) introduced a resolution directing the Senate to initiate legal actions against the Trump Administration for illegally refusing to release the complete Epstein files and heavily redacting the files that are released. Leader Schumer will force consideration of this resolution in January when the Senate reconvenes. In response to the Trump administration’s blatant disregard of the law by releasing heavily redacted documents and refusing to release the complete Epstein files, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer introduced a resolution which would direct the Senate to initiate legal actions to hold the DOJ accountable. The Epstein Files Transparency Act passed unanimously in the Senate and with only one vote against in the House. The directive and intent of the law was clear – the Trump administration must provide transparency to the American people,” says Schumer’s office in a press release issued Monday.

“‘The law Congress passed is crystal clear: release the Epstein files in full so Americans can see the truth,’ said Leader Schumer. ‘Instead, the Trump Department of Justice dumped redactions and withheld the evidence-that breaks the law. Today, I am introducing a resolution to force the Senate to take legal action and compel this administration to comply,'” the press release continued.

Toothy. Not just “strongly worded” as Schumer is known for – also note he’s the first one to put in the paperwork to get such an effort started – but toothy because it forces either a political and/or legal outcome that Trump and Republicans don’t want. One Republican stands up to block it and they’re tarred with covering up for Epstein and his buddies. Normally that’d be Tommy Tuberville but doubt he wants to hand that issue to Doug Jones in the Alabama gov race. If it passes then the Republican-majority Senate sues the Justice Department for access to the files. Maybe then the GOP finds some way to stall or sabotage it but that’s still a bad headline for their team.

The AI slop generated to illustrate Jared Kushner and that other scrotum Steve Witkoff’s vision for Gaza in 10 years isn’t unrealistic enough, National Zero reports based on a cursory viewing of the pitch deck slides obtained by the Wall Street Journal last week. Where are the flying cars and floating holographic billboards? Why are the skyscrapers so modest rather than triple the height of the Burj Khalifa? Who left “SpaceX port with galactic commerce ships docked” out of the prompt?

Fire that son of a bitch right now, Jared. He’s got no place on your team.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Monday announced that he’s pulling the plug on five offshore wind turbine projects that are literally currently under construction currently because binge-drinking date-rapist Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth thinks they interfere with military radar, Fox News reports without mentioning that convicted felon President Trump publicly pledged to cut American ratepayers’ electricity prices in half by 2026 during his lie-filled 2024 comeback campaign.

The latest pretext for gives Interior, “along with the Department of War [sic] and other relevant government agencies, time to work with leaseholders and state partners to assess the possibility of mitigating the national security risks posed by these projects. The prime duty of the United States government is to protect the American people,” Burgum said in a press release. “Today’s action addresses emerging national security risks, including the rapid evolution of the relevant adversary technologies, and the vulnerabilities created by large-scale offshore wind projects with proximity near our east coast population centers. The Trump administration will always prioritize the security of the American people,” Burgum continued. It’s not clear how many workers these projects employ and fuck you if you think Dougie would come anywhere close to broaching that angle here.

Denmark Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said Monday he was “deeply angered” by convicted felon President Trump’s moronic appointment of scumbag Louisiana Gov Jeff Landry as “special envoy” to Greenland and that Rasmussen will be summoning the US ambassador to demand an explanation for the renewed angling to conquer the vast, frozen territory, CBS News reports.

Rasmussen said the move was “totally unacceptable” and that “As long as we have a kingdom in Denmark that consists of Denmark, the Faroe Islands, and Greenland, we cannot accept that there are those who undermine our sovereignty.” It’s not clear why the hell Trump thinks that Landry, a governor with no foreign policy experience and who already has a job, is the right person to fly to Greenland repeatedly during the winter to try and sell them on surrendering their sovereignty.

Yes, Trump is fucking stupid but it’s still impressive how he’s doing pretty much the exact opposite of what one would do if they really wanted to capitalize on what is theoretically a unique opportunity to expand American territorial claims peaceably and with the consent of Greenlanders.

Socialist Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders will preside over a second, ceremonial swearing-in of New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani at City Hall on New Year’s Day next week, WNBC’s Melissa Russo reports, adding that the first actual swearing-in will be administered privately by New York State Attorney General Letitia James shortly after the clock strikes midnight.

Convicted felon President Trump and binge-drinking date rapist Pete Hegseth will make a “major” announcement from friggin Palm Beach, Florida on Monday afternoon and of course it’s about something something Iranian and Venezuelan oil tankers, the Independent reports.

A little present placed under Russian Army Lt General Fanil Sarvarov lit up like a Christmas tree on Monday, sending him to kingdom come and dictator Vladimir Putin’s goons looking for the likely Ukrainian saboteurs who had delivered the gift to Sarvarov, NBC News reports.

“Investigators are pursuing various theories regarding the murder,” Russian Investigative Committee spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko said in a statement following the kaboom. “One of them is that the crime was orchestrated by Ukrainian intelligence agencies.”

Like clockwork, all the lib shitposting accounts are going on and on with claims of this massive spike in usage of Grindr this weekend in Phoenix during Turning Point USA’s America Fest MAGA fan-con, and like clockwork it’s all based on unsubstantiated anecdotes and/or sourced from reports submitted to DownDetector – a platform that’s useful for folks to confirm it’s not just them experiencing outages of Instagram or Apple TV or whatever other platform/app.

Example from an Ookla research blog post recapping 2025 in crash-outs: “The second largest global outage stemmed from the gaming sector, with over 3.9 million reports to the PlayStation Network Downdetector page. This network-wide disruption affected users for over 24 hours, locking out players from major titles like Call of Duty and Fortnite. Downdetector’s Incident Attribution analysis concluded the cause was internal to PSN, with no major cloud or ISP involvement” that last part being key because the largest outage was Amazon Web Services in October, in third was CloudFlare last month, both of which bricked thousands of services/apps/platforms downstream of them.

Over 3.9 million reports from gamers worldwide during the February 7th outage, for which Sony gave no explanation but some fans speculated could’ve been due at least in part to high network traffic from a demo of the then-hotly-anticipated Monster Hunter Wilds, which debuted on the 28th.

Holy shit! CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD sat down with ABC’s Jon Karl for an interview aired Sunday morning and he said that if Democrats “all have the same goal, I think that could be what’s best for America.” WOW! That’s incredibly insightful and likely even prescient of the future of politics!

Stay tuned to Mediaite for in-depth coverage of Charlamagne’s interview. You won’t want to miss it.

It’s hard to pick out any one moment (full video of the interview above) from Trump defense lawyer Todd Blanche’s Sunday hit on meet the press that looked the worst but this has to be a pretty solid contender when Kristen Welker asks him “Why was this photo of a desk with a drawer open containing photos of Trump taken down?” to which Todd said “You can see in that photo there are photographs of women. We learned after released it that there were concerns about those women.”

Welker then asks “Are you saying that one or more of the women is a victim or survivor of Jeffrey Epstein?” Blanche then said “No, that’s not what I’m saying,” and then continued stammering.

Another gem from later on when Welker asked Blanche why Ghislaine Maxwell was moved just days after he interviewed her. “That’s a Bureau of Prisons security issue that I will not talk about,” said Blanche. Welker then asked “Did you have anything to do with it?” Blanche then responded with “I am responsible for the Bureau of Prisons, so every decision they make lands on my desk.”

Sources tell Fox News that scumbag New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik’s decision to quit the gubernatorial race and her House reelection bid “was partly due to lack of full support from President Trump,” especially in front of media when she was actually in the room with him last week.

“The biggest piece of this puzzle was Donald Trump and the fact that he passed three times on endorsing her candidacy, including in the Oval Office with the Miracle on Ice Team last week,” said a Republican “close to the situation,” adding “I think [that] played the largest role in this decision.”

“When you start to add these things up, and you see a contested primary, you see an assumed ally in the president who passes on endorsing, and it does not seem that you’re going to have the wind to your back in this cycle. I think [it] all played into this,” the source continued, blaming Trump for this whole shitshow and making it pretty clear that Stefanik feels betrayed by the fat bastard for being unwilling to endorse her and leave dipshit Nassau County Exec Bruce Blakeman behind.

US Navy personnel on Saturday seized a Venezuelan oil tanker that was not under international sanctions and thus operating lawfully but hey who gives a fuck anymore, let’s just do it and be legends, Axios reports on an escalation on top of a prior escalation of grabbing the sanctioned one.

“This is a message to Maduro,” said a Trump Regime source and wow, wonder if they had to workshop that one with ChatGPT before texting it to Axios’s White House guy Marc Caputo.

Remember how much work the Bush Administration actually put in to trying to sell the American public on why Iraq just had to be invaded, like faking all the WMD shit when they didn’t even really have to because a lot of the public still had bloodlust from 9/11 and just wanted to see more men with Middle Eastern last names next to “killed in US strike” in the headlines? And that just because the opposition to it was led by clownish fat bastard Michael Moore did not make it a good idea?

It’s funny because like none of those elements are present here in the current lead-up to a similar conflict with Venezuela. There’s no effort to be convincing, no significant public support for it – and really none outside the MAGA cult who would infect themselves with AIDS if Trump said it was a good idea, and Maduro’s a tyrant but pretty small potatoes compared to Saddam Hussein in terms of cultural infamy and brutality toward his own people. Now it simply feels easier to say “This is fucking stupid, there’s no good reason to do this” when fatass Michael Moore isn’t screaming through a bullhorn for you to agree with him and harder for Republicans to take the old “What are you, a Muslim?” and change it to “Tren de Aragua” to accuse you of treason for not supporting their war.

Lazy, directionless, impotent, also reckless and dangerous at the same time. That’s Trump for you.

Supremely insufferable fucking chode NRCC chair Richard Hudson this week sat down for a Puck News interview and had not the easiest time reconciling his party’s propaganda with the reality of their increasingly grim situation going into the new year, being first confronted with the godawful results of last month’s off-year elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and California, forcing him to admit that convicted felon President Trump is a millstone on the necks of GOP candidates everywhere.

“Turnout on the Democrat side was record levels for an off-year election, and Republican turnout was about what it usually is. Democrats are out of power. They’re motivated. They don’t like Donald Trump, so they’re going to turn out. Our side is happy because our guy won the White House, and they like the policies that are coming,” Hudson said, before sharing his little secret sauce for 2026.

“So they aren’t motivated by fear or anger to show up. I think that’s a lesson for us going into the midterms. Turnout is everything. And if we don’t do more than we would normally do, if we don’t turn out our voters, that’s a real threat for us,” the campaign guru said, pretty plainly hinting at the next caravan, rainbow fentanyl in Halloween candy, violent murder(s) that can be somehow blamed on Joe Biden, or some similar panic will need to be focus grouped to appeal to fear and anger voters.

Unmentioned was the fear that Trump will be impeached for a third time. That’ll be fun campaign messaging to watch, telling a 27 year-old gamer in Pennsylvania – who voted red in 2024 on the implied promise that he’d have his own apartment by now – to get up off the futon in his mom’s basement and turn out for Republicans or else Trump, Pam Bondi, and Todd Blanche will be impeached for failure to comply with their statutory duty to release the Epstein files in their entirety.